Metazoa info

[Whateverist]

Just came across this. http://oltw.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/1200...beech.html Apparently the Bristlecone Pine is not the oldest living pllant (organism?) on the planet. Had never heard of antartic beech before. Apparently all the trees in the area are clones of one individual. Perhaps there is no one tree that is as old as bristlecone but each of these clones is the ongoing life of an individual which has periodically cloned itself vegetatively.

Perhaps every asexual creature still alive is as old as life itself by that standard.

How can a plant be older than the earth? Isn't the earth 6,000 years old.

Oh no, that's controversial. Most scientists who studied somewhere other than a bible college actually think the earth is more than six orders of magnitude older than that.